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Comment How to check which processes need to be restarted (Score 1) 303

Once you have upgraded your copy openssl you can determine which processes need to be restarted by running the following command (only tested on Linux):

sudo lsof +c0 |grep DEL |grep libssl |awk '{ print $1 }' |sort |uniq

Note that just because a process is listed here doesn't mean it is vulnerable to the leak, it just means that it is linked to the vulnerable version of libssl.
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Ars Examines Outlandish "Lost To Piracy" Claims and Figures 380

Nom du Keyboard writes "For years the figures of $200 billion and 750,000 jobs lost to intellectual property piracy have been bandied about, usually as a cudgel to demand ever more overbearing copyright laws with the intent of diminishing of both Fair Use and the Public Domain. Now ARS Technica takes a look into origin and validity these figures and finds far less than the proponents of them might wish."

Rosen Believes RIAA is Wrong about P2P Lawsuits 287

Newer Guy writes "Former RIAA head Hilary Rosen now believes that the RIAA is wrong by pursuing their lawsuits of individuals for using P2P programs. In a blog post, she writes that she believes the lawsuits have 'outlived their usefulness' and states that the content providers really need to come up with their own download systems. She also is down on DRM, calling Apple's DRM 'a pain.'"

OMG BARBIE LINUX LOL!!1!!!! 124

tini1212 writes "LIKE OMG!! Have you guyz seen Barbie Linux!!??!?!?!? It's like totally cool! It's open source too!!! We can spend long nights patching the kernel, and look at pictures of that total hottie, Linus Torvalds!" From the site: "Making a bid for a piece of the emerging desktop Linux market, Mattel, Inc. announced the immediate availability of downloadable beta ISOs for BarbieOS 0.99, and said it hoped the final 1.0 retail version would be on store shelves in time for Christmas. The new OS was created by Mattel to power the upcoming revision of its popular B-Book line of laptops for girls between the ages of four and eleven. The original B-Book laptop, which ran a modified version of PalmOS, was a huge hit with consumers last holiday season, so much so that many stores had trouble keeping them in stock."

Comment Re:Highly annoying (Score 1) 360

I use netfilter/iptables with the 'recent' and 'tarpit' modules to block SSH brute force attempts:
$IPTABLES -N SSH_ATTACK
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXT_IF -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --name SSH --set --rsource -j SSH_ATTACK
$IPTABLES -A SSH_ATTACK -s $TRUSTED_HOST -j RETURN
$IPTABLES -A SSH_ATTACK -m recent ! --rcheck --seconds 60 --hitcount 3 --name SSH --rsource -j RETURN
$IPTABLES -A SSH_ATTACK -j LOG --log-level $LOGLEVEL --log-prefix "SSH Brute Force Attempt: "
$IPTABLES -A SSH_ATTACK -p tcp -j TARPIT
More info is available in this message on the Netfilter mailing list.

If possible, use the 'TARPIT' module because it significantly slows down the automated scanners that are being used to perpetrate these attacks.

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